On the rocks: what to drink with meat

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As an Iowa distillery begins breeding whiskey-flavoured pigs, here is my choice of booze to bring to a barbecue

There’s a hip bar on New York’s Lower East Side called PDT that does a mean Old Fashioned using whiskey flavoured with bacon but no one, as far as I know, has yet gone as far as the Templeton distillery in Iowa, which is now breeding pigs that taste of whiskey.

Don’t worry, they’re not actually feeding the little blighters booze, they’re just giving them the same grain recipe that goes to make the distillery’s rye (for the full diet plan visit templetonryeporkproject.com).

They’re never going to taste exactly like whiskey of course because they’ll never spend that all-important